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y separately published work icon Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar
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'In Joe's Fruit Shop and Milk Bar, Zoe artfully weaves her own experiences with those of her grandparents, taking us on a journey from Abruzzo and Calabria in Italy to Australian sugar cane fields, internment camps, Greek cafes, and the fruit shop and milk bar that was the focus of a family's hopes and dreams for the future...' (Source: Publisher's website)

Notes

  • Dedication:

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    Annibale, Francesca e Remo

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 4136714770293127272.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 371p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Published 27/01/2015
      ISBN: 9780733333828

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015 Annette Marfording , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;
Readers to Decide If Fact or Fiction Takes the Prize Phil Brown , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 August 2015; (p. 39)
'What's best - fact or fiction? It's one of the most compelling questions in the literary world today and it's one voters will have to ask themselves before voting for their favourite book in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Awards...'
Fruits of Labour Preserved Michael T. Bruce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 February 2015; (p. 818)

— Review of Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar Zoë Boccabella , 2015 single work autobiography
'As the Brisbane River bore down on the city in the flood of 2011, Zoe Boccabella and husband Rodger scurried to save a jumble of belongings from a house in New Farm...'
Fruits of Labour Preserved Michael T. Bruce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 February 2015; (p. 818)

— Review of Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar Zoë Boccabella , 2015 single work autobiography
'As the Brisbane River bore down on the city in the flood of 2011, Zoe Boccabella and husband Rodger scurried to save a jumble of belongings from a house in New Farm...'
Readers to Decide If Fact or Fiction Takes the Prize Phil Brown , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 August 2015; (p. 39)
'What's best - fact or fiction? It's one of the most compelling questions in the literary world today and it's one voters will have to ask themselves before voting for their favourite book in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Awards...'
Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015 Annette Marfording , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;
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